Christoph Correll is Professor of Psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital, NY. Since 1997, he has been working in New York, USA, and since 2017 he is also working in Germany again.

Dr. Correll focuses on the early identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and physical health in mental health. He has published over 900 journal articles that have been cited more than 83.000 times, and in 10/2024, his h-index was 146, being >100 in the last 5 years alone. He has received over 40 research awards. Since 2014, the beginning of this metric, he has been listed every year by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the “most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry”. Additionally, he has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings based on the number of publications and citations in the past 10 years, including in 10/2024 being ranked number one among world experts in 9 areas, including “central nervous system agents”, “psychotropic drugs“, “schizophrenia”, “schizophrenia spectrum/other psychotic disorders”, “antipsychotics”, “delayed action preparations” and “weight gain”.